I know these are "just jokes" -- but I just wanted to say that it's pretty messed up that we all seem to accept that rape will be a part of someone's punishment in this country. Talk about cruel and unusual...

I didn't follow any of the OJ shit purposely. Why glamorize shit like that? From day two it has been obvious this piss poor excuse of a human being is guilty. It's amazingly clear now how, why and what prompted this killing. His ass is toast, and he was to stupid to even make an attempt at covering his tracks. I feel NO sorrow for this POS, he should be executed after proven guilty. The death penalty is in place just for sub humans like this.

I read Whitlock's article blaming everyone but AH and or his parents. What bullshit. I don't feel one bit of responsibility for what this animal did. There is a reason I don't let my children listen to the pure shit that is promoted as POP / HIP HOP. I for some reason have been around for my children's upbringing. This is not my problem as well as a lot of Americans problem.

Off the soap box know, but that POS article pissed me off. I also see way to many people trying to be politically correct when the FACTS tell the gut to call it is what it is.

I don't see how this is his parents fault, they didn't choose his friends for him. I don't care how involved someone is with their children, their life is still going to take the path that the individual chooses regardless.

From what I've read, after Hernandez's dad died, he took a turn for the worst, understandable. But he is an idiot for keeping that same company after coming up and getting a dream job making millions in the NFL. Why he still felt the need to be this gang member and keep that company around will forever be beyond me. So many people struggle to get out of the streets, it baffles me why some of those same people turn back around to em, and it always comes back to bite em in the end, where it costs them dearly, with losing their life, losing a friend, or this. It's sad to me to see a young man throw it away because he felt dissed, all because he wouldn't let that bullshit life go.

irocdave wrote:I read Whitlock's article blaming everyone but AH and or his parents. What bullshit. I don't feel one bit of responsibility for what this animal did. There is a reason I don't let my children listen to the pure shit that is promoted as POP / HIP HOP. I for some reason have been around for my children's upbringing. This is not my problem as well as a lot of Americans problem.

loafoftatupu wrote:KJR report just said Hernandez admitted to firing the shots that killed the victim.

Yikes... I was really hoping it wasn't all that, but this dude really did it himself. Very disappointing.

"An associate of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez said he was told Hernandez fired the shots that resulted in the death of a semi-pro football player, according to documents filed in Florida."

loafoftatupu wrote:KJR report just said Hernandez admitted to firing the shots that killed the victim.

Yikes... I was really hoping it wasn't all that, but this dude really did it himself. Very disappointing.

"An associate of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez said he was told Hernandez fired the shots that resulted in the death of a semi-pro football player, according to documents filed in Florida."

Corrected: So a guy is saying that another guy told him Hernandez shot Lloyd. Hernandez isn't saying that (at this point). Isn't that considered hearsay?

Yes. The story is that Ortiz claims he was asleep in the backseat of the car when they went to the industrial area and Lloyd was shot. Wallace later told him Hernandez killed Lloyd. I don't have enough information to see if the circumstances offer one of the many exemptions allowing admitting hearsay evidence.

loafoftatupu wrote:KJR report just said Hernandez admitted to firing the shots that killed the victim.

Yikes... I was really hoping it wasn't all that, but this dude really did it himself. Very disappointing.

"An associate of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez said he was told Hernandez fired the shots that resulted in the death of a semi-pro football player, according to documents filed in Florida."

Corrected: So a guy is saying that another guy told him Hernandez shot Lloyd. Hernandez isn't saying that (at this point). Isn't that considered hearsay?

Yes. The story is that Ortiz claims he was asleep in the backseat of the car when they went to the industrial area and Lloyd was shot. Wallace later told him Hernandez killed Lloyd. I don't have enough information to see if the circumstances offer one of the many exemptions allowing admitting hearsay evidence.

irocdave wrote:I read Whitlock's article blaming everyone but AH and or his parents. What bullshit. I don't feel one bit of responsibility for what this animal did. There is a reason I don't let my children listen to the pure shit that is promoted as POP / HIP HOP. I for some reason have been around for my children's upbringing. This is not my problem as well as a lot of Americans problem.

Only reason this article makes sense is if no father figure is in place that actually is a father figure. Sugar coat it all you want but if AH dad put his foot down / in his ass for being a sub human he may have turned out differently. This opens Pandora's box with parenting. Some kids are super sensitive, others need more immediate physical influence to get them to straighten up. I was raised in a physical administration parenting situation. I still resent it, but I knew what was coming when I did something epically stupid in my teenage years. This ass clown deserves what's coming, don't make excuses for him and don't let Whitlock influence you. I have read a lot of his articles and tend to agree with him for the most part. In this instance, I don't and never will. Listening to below human music is NO excuse for this type of lifestyle. If some one is not capable of understanding the concept of valuing human life in todays society then they do not have a part in society. With this being said, why the hell should me, my wife, my sons PAY TAXES to keep this animal alive? This person serves no purpose in the human experience, rather they diminish the experience.

If you disagree please explain why you see this differently. Starting off with blaming me our anyone who isn't directly related to this sub human will generate a direct response from me....I am not raising my sons with this BS....it would be much easier on me to run away, loosen my OBLIGATION etc. But I don't BECUASE it's what being a FATHER is.

Don't buy in to the bullshit. Raising your kids is hard work. Blaming some one else is just that, blaming some one else. If your kid is that hard headed and logic doesn't work, then, well, you know what you have to do as a father. I grew up with that. Guess what? It worked. Don't cower to this crap. If music, or rather studio made soundtracks over layed with gangster ghetto tough talk turns you on then I guess Whitlock is right. Who the hell finds artistic quality in that? If you do, have you ever driven through Compton or Stockton on a Friday night? You will feel like an animal in the zoo. You will also appreciate your cage. This gangster / ANIMAL mentality is what's at issue. in Whitlock's article. I have seen this in person more times than I care to admit. These ANIMALS need to be put down. Just like AH's life needs to snuffed out. Why should this guy live to a ripe old age in prison ( funded by families like mine) when he snuffed out 1 or several more lives just so he could "keep it real". Screw him and the rest of you that think this is acceptable. May as well toss in the NAACP, they have decided to jump on the media gravy train that is AH. Go figure, a Hispanic killed a African American and look who's side they took. It's all about morons that want to pick up the torches and blame some one else.

Hey irocdave, AH's father died due to a complication with surgery when he was a teenager. AH seems to be a sociopath anyway, and all the putting your foot down most likely wouldn't have made much difference in regard to his lack of value for other's lives.

The F-bomb is taboo outside the Shack or PWR forums. He needs to pay the ultimate price once the 12 good folks vote their conscience.

I agree with drdiags here. AH is a sociopath. Upbringing sometimes has nothing to do with their lack of value for other's lives. Jeffrey Dahmer was a perfect example. Great family upbringing, still a serial killer.

irocdave wrote:I read Whitlock's article blaming everyone but AH and or his parents. What bullshit. I don't feel one bit of responsibility for what this animal did. There is a reason I don't let my children listen to the pure shit that is promoted as POP / HIP HOP. I for some reason have been around for my children's upbringing. This is not my problem as well as a lot of Americans problem.

Only reason this article makes sense is if no father figure is in place that actually is a father figure. Sugar coat it all you want but if AH dad put his foot down / in his ass for being a sub human he may have turned out differently. This opens Pandora's box with parenting. Some kids are super sensitive, others need more immediate physical influence to get them to straighten up. I was raised in a physical administration parenting situation. I still resent it, but I knew what was coming when I did something epically stupid in my teenage years. This ass clown deserves what's coming, don't make excuses for him and don't let Whitlock influence you. I have read a lot of his articles and tend to agree with him for the most part. In this instance, I don't and never will. Listening to below human music is NO excuse for this type of lifestyle. If some one is not capable of understanding the concept of valuing human life in todays society then they do not have a part in society. With this being said, why the hell should me, my wife, my sons PAY TAXES to keep this animal alive? This person serves no purpose in the human experience, rather they diminish the experience.

If you disagree please explain why you see this differently. Starting off with blaming me our anyone who isn't directly related to this sub human will generate a direct response from me....I am not raising my sons with this BS....it would be much easier on me to run away, loosen my OBLIGATION etc. But I don't BECUASE it's what being a FATHER is.

You aren't reading the article very well at all. It's not about what music you listen to or not having your parents be hardasses (And by the way, I went through that BS, and I hated my dad for years. Also, his being a hardass to my brother didn't stop my brother from acting like a thug during his teenage years and early twenties. So a pox on that simplistic idea), it's about the love of celebrity culture, which now revolves around being an awful human being, and not moral culture such as the fight for civil rights by men like Jesse Owens or Jackie Robinson.

Also, relax. I don't know who or what you think is attacking you. And before you ask, yes I have a child.

AH got caught up in the wrong crowd at an early age, and could never break free from that.. That was his undoing...

The gang mentality does not require one to have regard for human life for an assumed enemy. Is he a sociopath, to some degree i would think so, but i think it's more the culture he came up in more than anything.. He's a stone cold killer, in a gangs eyes, he's a soldier putting in work, and i think that's how he views himself, not as a serial killer, which he is not...

hawker84 wrote:AH got caught up in the wrong crowd at an early age, and could never break free from that.. That was his undoing...

The gang mentality does not require one to have regard for human life for an assumed enemy. Is he a sociopath, to some degree i would think so, but i think it's more the culture he came up in more than anything.. He's a stone cold killer, in a gangs eyes, he's a soldier putting in work, and i think that's how he views himself, not as a serial killer, which he is not...

I'm a firm believer that you can be the best parent in the world and it still won't stop a child from doing wrong. Some of it is genetics, some of it is upbringing, and some of it is local culture. There are football players that grew up with nothing, in a crappy neighborhood and came out great, and then there are children that had everything and went psycho. There was a study done where they followed adopted kids, and those that came from alcoholic/addicted biological parents got in to more trouble than those that didn't.

We are all just a bag of bones with emotions that are controlled by environment and chemicals that our body produces. If someone lives with chronic pain they are liable to be very cranky, and if they have intestinal tract problems, they are liable to be very unhappy. People that grow up perfectly healthy are fortunate but even some of them go off the deep end.

In the end, it all comes down to personal responsibility once we are adults. As soon as I turned 18 no one was responsible for my actions except me.

Seahwkgal wrote:I agree with drdiags here. AH is a sociopath. Upbringing sometimes has nothing to do with their lack of value for other's lives. Jeffrey Dahmer was a perfect example. Great family upbringing, still a serial killer.

Gotta disagree on Dahmer. He did not have a good family life as his mother suffered from some sort of undocumented mental health issue that caused her to frequently fight with Jeffrey's father and their neighbors. Even as a young child, Jeffrey was showing signs of psychosis, forming an obsession with dead things. A strong family unit would have taken issue with his hoarding of dead animals and sought the proper treatment. He also started abusing alcohol at an early age (13-14 or so), another issue which could have been addressed by a strong family unit.

Dahmer wasn't a sociopath, though. He was a classic psychopath whose urges were fueled by delusion and psychosis. Aaron Hernandez, if guilty (and it certainly looks as though he is), would be a classic case of sociopathy -- by knowing the act is wrong but doing it anyway, not out of compulsion, but out of refusal to conform with the social postulate that cold blooded murder is unacceptable.

Dahmer's psychosis was the primary motivator for his crimes, but the environment in which he was raised allowed it to snowball to the point where he would develop into a psychotic serial killer.

In Aaron Hernandez' case, it's pretty clear that he felt he was above the law, or that his own personal goals were not subject to common moral constructs, which is the hallmark of a sociopath. If one wants to draw a serial killer comparison, Gary Ridgeway is probably the best bet. Ridgeway did not suffer from any mental illness, aside for being of relatively low intelligence, and justified his crimes through a warped moral code.

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ivotuk wrote:I'm a firm believer that you can be the best parent in the world and it still won't stop a child from doing wrong. Some of it is genetics, some of it is upbringing, and some of it is local culture. There are football players that grew up with nothing, in a crappy neighborhood and came out great, and then there are children that had everything and went psycho. There was a study done where they followed adopted kids, and those that came from alcoholic/addicted biological parents got in to more trouble than those that didn't.

We are all just a bag of bones with emotions that are controlled by environment and chemicals that our body produces. If someone lives with chronic pain they are liable to be very cranky, and if they have intestinal tract problems, they are liable to be very unhappy. People that grow up perfectly healthy are fortunate but even some of them go off the deep end.

In the end, it all comes down to personal responsibility once we are adults. As soon as I turned 18 no one was responsible for my actions except me.

Yeah. Someone I know was adopted and abused by the adoptive mother. That mother was also a major bigot. The person I know is one of the most loving, decent people you could ever meet.

BTW police wanted information from his uncle about a double homicide which was previous and unsolved. This is the 2nd "ACCIDENT" where you have potential witnesses pointing fingers at Hernandez in various murder investigations.

2 people have been taken out in "ACCIDENTS" so far since his arrest....